Addiction is a complex and confusing diseases, these days experts worldwide are comparing alcohol and drug addiction to illness such as diabetes cancer, HIV &Aids and cardiovascular disease.They found tendency to develop to disease may be inherited, however the lifestyle decisions people make and the messages society gives about the use of alcohol and drugs affects whether or not people become addicted.
Alcoholism or addiction to alcohol is considered as chronic, progressive and fatal disease.Chronic means that the diseases are ongoing, and progressive means that it gets worse over time, Fatal means that people can die from the disease.